Sand
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  • Published: 3 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099595151
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99

Sand

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6 Feb 2014
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5 Jun 2014
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3 Nov 2014
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A powerful post-apocalyptic thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Silo trilogy.

A powerful post-apocalyptic thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Silo trilogy.

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.

Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago. His elder sister, Vic, is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers, Connor and Rob, are risking their lives to embrace it. His mother, left with nothing but anger, is just trying to forget.

Palmer wants to prove his worth, not only to his family, but to himself. And in the barren, dune-covered landscape of his home, there is only one way to earn respect: sand-diving. Plunging deep below the desert floor in search of relics and scraps of the old world. He is about to embark on the most dangerous dive of his young life, aiming to become the first to discover the rumoured city below.

Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing his family together - and tearing their world apart.
  • Published: 3 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099595151
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Hugh Howey

Hugh Howey spent eight years living on boats and working as a yacht captain for the rich and famous. It wasn't until the love of his life carried him away from these vagabond ways that he began to pursue literary adventures, rather than literal ones.

Hugh wrote and self-published the Wool trilogy, which won rave reviews and praise from readers, and whose three books have gone on to become international bestsellers.

He lives in Jupiter, Florida, with his wife Amber and their dog Bella.

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Also by Hugh Howey

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Shift
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Sand Part 5: A Rap Upon Heaven’s Gate
Sand Part 4: Thunder Due East
Sand Part 3: Return to Danver
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Praise for Sand

Sand immerses you in its grubby post-apocalyptic world … Howey conjures a credible, brutal future.

Financial Times

Hugh Howey can really write.

SFX

In short, Sand will earn Mr Howey another well-deserved million or more.

Daily Sport

This terrifically fresh and well-realised setting provides the background for a richly emotional story about families and communities.

Morning Star

Sand shows the success of Howey’s Wool Trilogy was no fluke. This is a superior SF thriller, both slick and gritty.

Financial Times

It’s all too easy to get so wrapped up in spaceships that you forget what original sci-fi ideas are like … But it’s the horror quality of the sand-diving that stays with you – described so hauntingly that you can almost taste the grit.

Sun